Senior Director, Quality and Manufacturing Resume Broomfield, CO - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Senior Quality Management Professional having extensive experience with small and large companies. Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
Strengths include analysis, problem solving and team building. Known for leading transformational programs and quality improvement.
Long - standing reputation for building highly TEMPeffective teams.
Proven expertise in leadership, quality, change management, data analysis, process improvement, metrics, project management, and data reporting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

Senior Director, Quality and Manufacturing

Responsibilities:

Worked with domestic and offshore contract manufacturers (CM) for NPI and production.
Provided architecture and plan for automation of manufacturing tests.
Architect business processes and metrics for multiple products.
Developed Quality Manual and Quality Management System (QMS).
Responsible for regulatory compliance, including safety, materials, FCC/EMC
Led Manufacturing Readiness and Production Scale-up for new products.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Senior Director, Quality and Manufacturing

Responsibilities:

Established readiness criteria and risk assessments for new product releases.
Responsible for regulatory compliance, including safety, materials, FCC/EMC
Drove multiple vendors to meet the quality, cost, and schedule requirements.
Drove yield improvements at contract manufacturer from 75% to 97% in first 12 months.

Confidential, Superior, CO

Director, Quality and Reliability

Responsibilities:

Developed company-wide dashboards for data analytics, driving six sigma initiatives and to standardize best practices.
Developed a company-wide Cost of Quality program focused on reducing Cost of Poor Quality.
Led a corporate-wide initiative to improve software quality and testing best practices.
Launched a highly TEMPeffective program with Development Teams to prevent defects early in the development process.

Confidential, Superior, CO

Director, Quality and Reliability

Responsibilities:

Drove Statistical Process Control methods and measurements into Contract Manufacturers.
Completely redesigned the policy & process for RMA and Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA), resulting in improved overall response time to customers.
ISO 9001 Internal/External Audit Team
Reduced Annualized Return Rate (ARR) from 4.8% to 0.81% and Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) from 2.7% to 0.41% over a three-year period, by driving product and process improvements across all functional areas.